The Volen National Center for Complex Systems Poster Session
The Volen Retreat offers the opportunity for all Volen-affiliated faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students to present a poster detailing their research. This is an opportunity for other members of the community to engage with their fellow scientists and exchange ideas. The face-to-face format of a poster session allows for direct and detailed discussion of data and techniques. This year we saw a record number of posters: 40 postdoctoral fellows and students presented posters at the Volen Retreat. The presenters and titles are below.
| Presenter | Poster Title |
|---|---|
| Daniel Acker | Semaphorin4D regulates GABAergic signaling in the intact hippocampus |
| Nicole Amichetti | A qualitative shift in comprehension strategies revealed under the triple challenge of age, reduced hearing acuity, and complex linguistic input |
| Eriko Atagi | Using cochlear implant simulations to examine the effects of signal degradation and linguistic complexity on sentence comprehension and listening effort |
| Belinda Barbagallo | Neural circuit control of physiological homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster. |
| Meredith Blankenship | Retronasal but not orthonasal presentation of odors is sufficient for learning in an olfactory preference task. |
| Peter Bronk | Calcium/calmodulin regulation of the ether-a-go-go potassium cahannel |
| Mugdha Deshpande | Rerouting BMP receptor traffic suppresses synaptic growth defects in a Drosophila model of ALS/FTD |
| Danielle DiTirro | C. elegans Tubby regulates cilia structure and ciliary protein trafficking |
| Yasmin Escobedo | Lozoya Developmental plasticity drives E/I imbalance and seizure in an in vitro model of Infantile Spasm Epilepsy |
| Zachary Feiger | Mechanisms for misregulation of membrane traffic and growth factor signaling in animal models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
| Veronica Flores | Behavioral and neural investigation of experience dependent learning mechanisms in the rat |
| Maria Genco | The characterization of rhythmic Drosophila larval motor neuron activity |
| Julijana Gjorgjieva | Homeostatic regulation of circuit function |
| Patricia Goodwin | Regulation of sleep by microRNAs in Drosophila |
| Sara Haddad | Modulators differentially affect robust rhythmic output across temperature |
| David Hampton | Effects of multiple neuromodulators on C. borealis STNS |
| Josiah Herzog | TDP-43 mediated changes in dendritic morphology via aberrant growth factor signaling |
| Linnea Herzog | Taste learning in the hippocampus and gustatory cortex |
| Anne Joseph | Nuclear CaMKIV bidirectionally regulates excitatory homeostatic mechanisms in cortical neurons |
| Katelyn Kenny | A novel function for the GTPase Rem2 in the nucleus |
| Zachary Knecht | The molecular basis of hygrosensation in Drosophila |
| Heather Lin | The effects of GRIP1 on synaptic scaling |
| Chang Liu | Serotonergic activity controls sleep architecture in Drosophila melanogaster |
| Jacqueline McDermott | The role of PlexinBs in Sema4D mediated GABAergic synapse formation |
| Nate Miska | Visual deprivation-induced synaptic and circuit-level changes in layer 4 of visual cortex |
| Narendra Mukherjee | Sensory cortical representation and modulation of decision related motor patterns in the rodent taste system |
| Lina Ni | Lonotropic receptors mediate cool sensing in Drosophila |
| Sean O’Toole | Post-transcriptional regulation in fast-spiking interneurons |
| Adriane Otopalik | Modulation of localized transmitter responses in identified neurons of the stomatogastric ganglion |
| Laura Paige | Age differences in hippocampal activation during false recognition of objects |
| Emily Parodi | A novel role for Kinesin-1 in microtubule and actin interactions in the developing nervous system. |
| Sarah Richards | Knockout of Rem2 alters critical period plasticity in mouse visual cortex |
| Neil Ritter | Modified carbon fiber arrays for dense recording from LGN |
| Alexander Sutton | Variability and constancy of morphological properties of STG neurons |
| Rylie Walsh | The retromer complex regulates the abundance of APP-exosomes at the Drosophila NMJ |
| Timothy Wiggin | Describing Drosophila sleep patterns using a quantitative behavioral model |
| Yanxun Yu | Transmembrane guanlylyl cyclases and CaMKI mediate thermosensory signaling and thermal acclimation |
| Liangfang Zhao | Role of inhibitory circuits in monocular deprivation-induced homeostatic synaptic plasticity |
| Zhihao Zheng | 3D neuron tracing |
| Mark Zielinski | Disrupting awake sharp-wave ripples increases vicarious trial and error behavior |